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Pir Faisal Qureshi blue 🔹

@pirfaisal.bsky.social
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Enfant Terrible Literati. History Buff. Bibliophile. Philosophy lover. Contrarian. Solivagant. M.A English Literature. MS Psycholinguistic.🇵🇰

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Pir Faisal Qureshi blue 🔹 @pirfaisal.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
The USA has changed its army chief instead of regime change in Iran.
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Pir Faisal Qureshi blue 🔹 @pirfaisal.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
www.dawn.com/news/1896650...
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HOSTAGE TO THE DACOITS
Armed with increasingly sophisticated weapons and bolstered by greater networking, northern Sindh dacoits operate with near impunity.
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Nadeem F. Paracha @nfparacha.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Repeatable Transgression. History has shown that transgressions by and against the state, when left unpunished, tend to resurface with greater intensity. www.dawn.com/news/1895134...
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SMOKERS’ CORNER: REPEATABLE TRANSGRESSION
History has shown that transgressions by and against the state, when left unpunished, tend to resurface with greater intensity.
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Nadeem F. Paracha @nfparacha.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Faith in Falsehoods. www.dawn.com/news/1893623...
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SMOKERS’ CORNER: FAITH IN FALSEHOODS
Despite the progress of science and reason, myths and conspiracy theories continue to thrive — even among educated people.
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Pir Faisal Qureshi blue 🔹 @pirfaisal.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
#DarwinDay
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Pir Faisal Qureshi blue 🔹 @pirfaisal.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
One day, evolutionary theory will blend with thr humanities and we will stop talking about how to make art and we will start talking, scientifically, together about why.?
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Pir Faisal Qureshi blue 🔹 @pirfaisal.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Biological evolution does not imply or suggest determinism. Knowledge of our evolutionary mechanisms can help us change, while ignorance keeps us in the dark.
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Pir Faisal Qureshi blue 🔹 @pirfaisal.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
The Right hates human evolution because it is an affront to their beliefs about Intelligent Design. The Left hates human evolution because it is seen as an affront to their beliefs about equality.
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Pir Faisal Qureshi blue 🔹 @pirfaisal.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
All civilizations arose from the ash of stellar alchemy. It’s amazing what hydrogen atoms can do if given enough time.👇
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Nadeem F. Paracha @nfparacha.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
The Big Tech’s Big Rush. Are people being duped and led towards societal collapse and an authoritarian techno-capitalist future? www.dawn.com/news/1890662...
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SMOKERS’ CORNER: BIG TECH'S BIG RUSH
Technological advancements come with the notion that they are liberating people from the old, soulless forms of capitalism. But
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Pir Faisal Qureshi blue 🔹 @pirfaisal.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Happy birthday to my guru and mentor, Sir Nadeem F. Paracha. Author, cultural critic and historian.
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Nadeem F. Paracha @nfparacha.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Romantic Nationalism and Fake History. Pseudo-archaeology has played a big role in constructing mythical histories that feed into imagined pasts that ultimately only aid the political aims of ultra-nationalism. www.dawn.com/news/1889117...
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SMOKERS’ CORNER: ROMANTIC NATIONALISM AND FAKE HISTORY
Pseudo-archaeology has played a big role in constructing mythical histories that feed into imagined pasts that ultimately only aid the political aims of ultra-nationalism.
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Nadeem F. Paracha @nfparacha.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
It is naive to continue idealising democracy without critiquing it from some awkward angles. www.dawn.com/news/1887627...
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SMOKERS’ CORNER: WESTERN BLIND SPOTS
As the far-right gains momentum across the West, Western academics long fixated on ‘fragile democracies’ in the Global
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Nadeem F. Paracha @nfparacha.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
THE CURSE OF 'COLLAPSOLOGY' www.dawn.com/news/1883075...
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SMOKERS’ CORNER: THE CURSE OF 'COLLAPSOLOGY'
Western political scientists and academics are often quick to label nations such as China and Pakistan as being ‘on the
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Pir Faisal Qureshi blue 🔹 @pirfaisal.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
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Nadeem F. Paracha @nfparacha.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
The Self Coup. www.dawn.com/news/1881733...
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SMOKERS’ CORNER: THE SEIF-COUP
Heads of state, such as Donald Trump and Yoon Suk Yeol, have instigated ‘self-coups’ in an attempt to hold on to power.
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Pir Faisal Qureshi blue 🔹 @pirfaisal.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Marry Christmas Professor. 😔
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Pir Faisal Qureshi blue 🔹 @pirfaisal.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Attending the marriage ceremony with former minister of Maritime affairs,Ali Zaidi PTI.
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Pir Faisal Qureshi blue 🔹 @pirfaisal.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Never read such a surreal and strange topic like this in the history of English literature.
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Pir Faisal Qureshi blue 🔹 @pirfaisal.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Is your topic of PHD thesis inspired by the Pre-Raphaelite movement or surrealism or Dadism? Dr Ally.
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Nadeem F. Paracha @nfparacha.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Reading into Politics. www.dawn.com/news/1874371
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SMOKERS’ CORNER: READING INTO POLITICS
Across history, politicians and statesmen have often found inspiration and political strategies in books. However, the age of "leader-readers" now seems to be at an end.
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Pir Faisal Qureshi blue 🔹 @pirfaisal.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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I’ve joined Bluesky and it feels like a breath of fresh air – in some ways… | John Naughton
The flourishing new platform may be like Twitter once was. The problem is the limited algorithmic scope of all social media
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Pir Faisal Qureshi blue 🔹 @pirfaisal.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
I can relate my motto of life to this quote by Bertrand Russell.Sapere Aude. 🙏
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Pir Faisal Qureshi blue 🔹 @pirfaisal.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Our childhood memories.
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Pir Faisal Qureshi blue 🔹 @pirfaisal.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
www.forbes.com/sites/danidi....
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The X (Twitter) Exodus To Bluesky, Explained
X (formerly Twitter) users are leaving in droves to the social media site Bluesky—here’s why they’re leaving, and why they might not stay away.
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Pir Faisal Qureshi blue 🔹 @pirfaisal.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Does Bluesky have the current trends option like the old twitter.?
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Pir Faisal Qureshi blue 🔹 @pirfaisal.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Nice Sir. welcome.
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Pir Faisal Qureshi blue 🔹 @pirfaisal.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Being here and no longer on X as a small act of resistance.
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Pir Faisal Qureshi blue 🔹 @pirfaisal.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
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Pir Faisal Qureshi blue 🔹 @pirfaisal.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Welcome.
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Pir Faisal Qureshi blue 🔹 @pirfaisal.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Bsky is much better than X. It's just like the old version of Twitter. My old account was blocked by X and it remains suspended in Pakistan. I would suggest my friends to leave X and join Bsky.
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